Oh, Lordi

Forget bureaucratic Brussels, seat of the European Union. The real face of European unity was on display Saturday night in Athens, this year's host of the Eurovision Song Contest.

It's the EU through a looking glass. For starters, Eurovision is relaxed about who gets in. No need to prove democratic or free market bona fides here, or meet geographic litmus tests. Armenia and Belarus take part, as does Turkey, which won in 2003. Morocco...